Insights from the Helping Professions

"Insights from the Helping Professions" reflects distinctive thinking about the bases of human behavior, indicates how individuals and groups can change, and provides insights into the processes of individual and group conflict. The academic disciplines and realms of professional experience reflected in the "Insights" series include perspectives within counseling, psychology, and psychiatry as well as two more traditional disciplines, anthropology and sociology, which have influenced professional practice in the helping professions. Considerations of human nature, the influences of gender, and the processes of socialization relevant to attaining peace are embedded throughout the "Insights" series.